Thursday, September 24, 2009

Blog #5 Pollan/Obrach

1. Pollen says " Men have become tools of their tools." I believe this means that now a days people rely more on their tools then there own handywork. You drive your tractor for a few hours that plants your seeds for you and your done for the day. Back in the day you only had your hands and a few essential tools to get your entire farm up and running. Men have become overly relient on their tools thats there becoming tools. You find your self thinking what ever happened to good hard labor? I guess people have become to lazy for hardwork. Don't get me wrong tractors are a lot easier and quicker and do the same effcient job as your hands could maybe the tractor is even better then your hands but people have become to consumed with technology and tools and whatever else we have out their that we basically forget who we truly are because now we're all just tools of our trade.

2. Obrach continually speaks about woman's problems and how we must be a certain way to conform with society or otherwise be an outcast to society. Yes this is true woman do feel that way but what about men? Obrach says, " The current ideological justifications for inequality of the sexes has been bulit on the concept of innate differences between men and woman." (200-201) I tend to disagree with that, men are no different then woman when the corcern is body type. Men like woman have issues with weight. No man wants to over weight and they'll go on diets just like woman to fit the certain stereotype everyone has to be this month. Men actually try harder then woman to look good on some occassions, a man will spend hours at the gym getting "buff" because thats what the females like, they'll drink their protein shakes and raw eggs all day to look good. So in reality yes woman struggle with weight and diets but so do men. So really when you think about what is the difference between men and woman and body types ? I don't see any.

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